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• Another Obstacle for Affirmative Action, And Congress Is Prepared to Fight

  On Nov. 4, amid all the excitement surrounding Barack Obama's election, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down a Pentagon program that included a 5 percent set-aside for companies run by African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native... Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: to, for, The Pentagon, and, Is, Barack Obama, Another, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Court of Appeals, Congress, Fight, San Antonio, prepared, Joe Davidson, Obstacle, Timex Corporation, International Computer, Action,, Affirmative, Edolphus Towns

• For Treasury Post, Geithner Is Leader Schooled in Crisis

  On the evening of Friday, Sept. 12, Timothy F. Geithner gathered 20 Wall Street executives in a conference room at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Posted Nov 21 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Crisis, Hong Kong, Wall Street, U.S. Federal Reserve, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Ben Bernanke, Henry M. Paulson, In, for, The White House, George W. Bush, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Lehman Brothers Inc., Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Is, Barack Obama, Capitol Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Treasury, Jim Bunning, Timothy Geithner, Lawrence Summers, Leader, Dartmouth College, Geithner, Post,, Clinton Treasury Department, Westchester, Schooled

• Automotive Rescue Is Threatened By Impasse

  Senate Democrats yesterday unveiled a plan to speed $25 billion in emergency loans to the imperiled automobile industry, but they acknowledged that its chances of passage are slim without a breakthrough in talks with the Bush administration. Posted Nov 17 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, Henry M. Paulson, The White House, by, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Rescue, General Motors Corporation, Is, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Ohio, Nancy Pelosi, Detroit, Chrysler Holding LLC, Steven Mufson, Bob Corker, Carl Levin, George Miller, Dana Perino, Kit Bond, George Voinovich, Jon Kyl, Threatened, Kendra Marr, San Jose, Diarmuid O'Connell, Impasse, Tesla Motors Inc., Automotive, John McDonald

• Mortgage 'Reform' Is Just a Small Step Forward

  Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston recently announced what he said was a "mammoth leap forward for the consumer." Posted Nov 15 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: A, National Public Radio Inc., Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post Company, Is, Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, American Bankers Association, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Step, Mortgage, Small, Just, Forward, Attila the Hun, Robert R. Davis, 'Reform'

• The Anti-Junket Is Coming to Town

  There are no plans for sightseeing tours, shopping sprees or three-anything lunches when leaders from 20 countries, accompanied by large delegations of officials, business people and journalists, visit the capital during the next two days for a world economic summit. Posted Nov 13 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, to, The, The White House, George W. Bush, Town, Is, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Northwest (Washington, DC), Center for Strategic and International Studies, Hu Jintao, Coming, King Abdullah, Nicolas Sarkozy, National Building Museum, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carla Bruni, Anti-Junket, Steven Schrage, Students for a Democratic Society, Samantha Miller, Emanuel Lenain

• 'Plum Book' Is Obama's Big Help-Wanted Ad

  As the national unemployment rate climbs to a 14-year high, a treasure trove of about 8,000 new jobs surfaced in one place on Capitol Hill yesterday. The federal government published the Plum Book, an inventory of positions that will soon be vacated by the Bush administration and open for hire. Posted Nov 12 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Ad, Is, Big, Obama's, Book', Help-Wanted, 'Plum

• Foreclosure Relief Is Getting Lost In Fine Print of Loans

  More than a year into the foreclosure crisis, whether a distressed homeowner is eligible for a more affordable mortgage can often come down to the fine print. Posted Nov 12 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Henry M. Paulson, In, Bank of America Corporation, of, Foreclosure, Is, Relief, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fine, Spencer Bachus, Loans, Lost, Getting, Michael Gross, Print, Stephen O'Halloran, Thomas Deutsch

• Running On Empty: GM's Fate Is Debated

  As General Motors burns through cash, edging its way toward possible financial collapse, a growing number of analysts have said bankruptcy might be inevitable. GM insists such a move is out of the question, and as the debate roils, people on both sides point to two past scenarios for lessons. Posted Nov 11 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: on, Is, Running, Fate, Debated, Empty:, GM's

• Where the Cash Is

  Their stocks are languishing, like so many others', but their cash kitties are flush. Of the 10 most cash-rich, non-financial companies, the top six are well-known tech names. A telling measure of how deep their pockets are is their current ratio, which shows their current assets relative to shor... Posted Nov 08 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: The, Microsoft Corporation, Google Inc., Is, Apple Inc., Intel Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Cash, Where, Cisco Systems Inc.

• For First-Time Investors, the Moment Is Now

  I seem to be fielding the same questions from the 20somethings I know. "Isn't it true that you're supposed to buy stocks when they're down?" they ask me. "So should I start investing in stocks now?" Posted Nov 08 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: The, for, Is, Moment, Now, Investors,, First-Time

• Treasury Is Working To Widen the Rescue

  The federal government is preparing to take tens of billions of dollars in ownership stakes in an array of companies outside the banking sector, dramatically widening the scope of the Treasury Department's rescue effort beyond the $250 billion set aside for traditional financial firms, government... Posted Nov 06 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: U.S. Federal Reserve, to, Bethesda, The, The White House, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Rescue, Connecticut, General Motors Corporation, Is, Barack Obama, Chicago, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Capitol Hill, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair, Treasury, Widen, CapitalSource Finance LLC, Working, GMAC LLC, Hartford, Michele Davis, MetLife Inc., Toni Simonetti, The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Dennis R. Glass, Shannon LaPierre

• Bush Ocean Plan Is Criticized

  President Bush's vision for protecting two vast areas of the Pacific Ocean from fishing and mineral exploitation, a move that would constitute a major expansion of his environmental legacy, is running into dogged resistance both inside and outside the White House and has placed his wife and his vice... Posted Nov 03 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, Bush, The White House, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Is, Hawaii, Japan, Plan, Criticized, Guam, Gulf of Mexico, Laura Bush, White House Council on Environmental Quality, Keith Hennessey, James L. Connaughton, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan, Hawaiian Islands, Claudia McMurray, Jane Lubchenco, Line Islands, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, Mariana Trench, Hotel Association, Joshua Reichert, Juan Borja Tudela, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean, Ocean, Mariana Islands, Oregon State University

• Obama's Talk Show Advantage Is No Idle Chatter

  The presidential candidates have made it through a two-year media maze that at times dwelled on cleavage, cackling, Paris Hilton, lipstick, haircuts, houses, preachers, pregnancy, flag pins, witchcraft, designer wardrobes and Joe Wurzelbacher. Posted Nov 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Howard Kurtz (washingtonpost.com) Filed under: Delaware, No, Is, Obama's, John McCain, Larry King, CBS Corporation, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, The New York Times Company, Brian Williams, Charles Gibson, Elizabeth Vargas, Jay Leno, Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, NBC Universal Inc., Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey, Illinois, Center for Media and Public Affairs, Bill Burton, William Ayers, Tribune Company, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, Time Inc., Sean Hannity, Phil Singer, Oprah Winfrey, Jill Zuckman, ABC Inc., Show, Idle, The Daily Show, Barbara Walters, Talk, Paris Hilton, Sarah Palin, Ellen DeGeneres, Joseph Biden, David Wade, Joe Wurzelbacher, David Letterman, Michael Goldfarb, Bill Geddie, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachael Ray, Advantage, Chatter, Access Hollywood, G. Gordon Liddy, Tyra Banks, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Arsenio Hall

• New Model Is Forged In Bank's Wreckage

  PASADENA, Calif. -- Inside the stone-and-glass headquarters of IndyMac Federal Bank, regulators are carrying out an experiment that could change the course of the financial crisis by tackling the home foreclosures that are at its root. Posted Oct 31 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Wall Street, JP Morgan Chase & Co., In, Bank of America Corporation, Florida, New, California, Lehman Brothers Inc., U.S. Department of the Treasury, Tom Deutsch, Is, Freddie Mac Holdings, American Bankers Association, Credit Suisse Group, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Countrywide Financial Corporation, Bob Davis, IndyMac Bancorp Inc., Sheila C. Bair, West Hollywood, Forged, Mike Krimminger, Wreckage, Model, Jeff Lehman, Bank's

• Former CEO of Iowa Kosher Meatpacking Plant Is Arrested

  The former chief executive of the Iowa kosher meatpacking plant that was the site of a large immigration raid in May was arrested yesterday on federal conspiracy charges involving harboring illegal immigrants for financial gain and aiding and abetting document fraud and aggravated identity theft. Posted Oct 30 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, Iowa, of, Is, CEO, Former, Agriprocessors Inc., Postville, Plant, Robert Teig, Meatpacking, Kosher, Aaron Rubashkin, Luis Gutierrez, Scott Frotman, Upton Sinclair, Arrested